Chapter 105
Liu Xuan’s face sank at his words, and then beside him, he said coldly.
“Pretending to be polite, pretending to be good, you come, I would like to see, what are you capable of! I’m waiting at home, come over if you have the guts!”
Liu Dingtian saw this and just wanted to scold Liu Xuan, but Lin Ran was one step ahead of him and opened his mouth to laugh.
“Haha, since that’s the case, then I’m respectful, after all, I’m the one with the real skills!”
Originally, Lin Ran was still a little hesitant, but when he heard Liu Xuan say that, he had a thick skin and directly agreed.
“You! How shameless!”
Liu Xuan was so angry that he gritted his teeth, he didn’t expect Lin Ran to be so thick-skinned in addition to being deep in the city, which really surprised him.
“Then it’s a deal, I have things to do, I’ll leave now, I’ll call you later!”
Liu Dingtian smiled and rounded up the situation, and then led the others away.
“Hey, you’re really going to his house? Isn’t that a sheep into a tiger’s mouth!”
As soon as the former had left, Luo Cheng hurriedly came up and said.
“A tiger’s mouth? The Liu family isn’t even close!”
Lin Ran smiled blandly at his words, not saying anything more.
“Gutsy, worthy of being my Luo Cheng’s friend!”
Luo Cheng gave a thumbs up and laughed, he appreciated Lin Ran’s domineering, defiant attitude, poor? What’s wrong with being poor, as usual, I don’t put you rich second generation in my eyes.
You have your own family fortune, I have my own pride, although not rich, but very proud!
“Uncle Mu, what about this kid?”
On the other side, after parting with Lin Ran, Liu Dingtian asked directly.
Liu Mu, an old man at the side, nodded and smiled.
“This son was not afraid or angry just now, he did not even get angry at Xuan’er’s words that were so unpleasant, so he can see the excellent nature of his heart, and the last sentence that was deliberately cheeky to anger Xuan’er carried some of the temperament of a young man!”
Speaking of this, Liu Mu revealed a difficult look, a moment later received.
“This son gives me a very mysterious feeling, the body has both the calmness of the old and the impetus of the young, the future achievement is afraid of extraordinary!”
“Grandpa Liu Mu, are you mistaken, this guy comes from such a poor background, he can actually know Uncle Luo, it can be seen the depth of the city, what kind of crap achievement can he achieve in the future!”
Liu Xuan listened to the displeasure in his heart on the side and opened his mouth to belittle.
“You give me …..”
Liu Dingtian was just about to open his mouth to scold, but Liu Mu interrupted him with a pat, and then looked at Liu Xuan father and son, and said in a serious tone.
“Old me has been in this Wanding Pawn for decades, I have seen not 10,000 but 8,000 people, I think I am very accurate in reading people, this son is indeed extraordinary, you better not offend easily!”
After saying that, Liu Mu looked at Liu Xuan and said with a sigh.
“Xuan’er, you were born with the golden key in your mouth, you can’t see through many things, but grandpa must advise you of one thing, to be able to muddle through from poverty to your current achievements, sometimes it’s not city spirit that you rely on!”
“Then what is it?”
Liu Xuan asked after him.
Liu Mu smiled faintly at his words and said.
“True ability!”
“The same kind of real ability as your great grandfather!”
“True… Still the same as Grandpa Tai, how is that possible!”
Liu Xuan’s heart was shocked, unwilling to believe it.
Their Liu family had been destitute at the beginning, but it was because their grandfather had followed their father to the four corners of the world since they were young, and had developed a pair of discerning eyes by selling pawned goods, that the Liu family had made its fortune and become what it was today.
All of this was due to his wisdom, and Liu Mu was trained by him.
Now that Grandpa Liu Mu had actually said that Lin Ran might have real skills, it made him both upset and a little surprised at the same time.
“Could this guy really have real skills?”
Liu Xuan’s heart wavered a little, resounding with the attitude Luo Cheng had towards Lin Ran.
Luo Cheng was a person of the same status and position as himself, yet he took that kid very seriously, could it be that he was really inferior to Luo Cheng when it came to this skill of reading people?
……
At the other end of the conversation, Lin Ran and Luo Cheng soon found Li Wansan, who was accompanying his father as he viewed a bronze Buddha, and the two were chatting happily.
“Yo, little divine doctor, why have you even come here in person!”
Seeing Lin Ran, Li Wansan was very excited, the young man in front of him was responsible for his father’s healing.
“Wan San, this little brother is my life-saver?”
Li Tang asked suspiciously, he was in a coma at the time and had not seen Lin Ran, only later heard from his own son that he had been saved by the little miracle doctor from the Temperance Hospital.
“Yes, that’s him!”
Li Wansan said with a smile.
Li Tang was very excited and came over, holding Lin Ran’s hand and saying gratefully.
“Little brother, thank you so much, saving a life is no thanks, in the future if you look up to me, Li Tang, if you need anything, just look me up, I will help if I can!”
“Sure!”
Lin Ran laughed, the fact that Li Tang could say this was enough to show his sincerity, as for whether he would have the chance to ask him for help in the future, Lin Ran didn’t care, what he valued in making friends was his heart, not anything else.
“Uncle Li, are you looking at the bronze Buddha?”
Luo Cheng looked on in wonder, both of them were selling herbs, how come they were still interested in this Chinese antique.
“Haha, this you do not understand, medicine and martial arts do not separate, so this medicine and antiques are equally related, many ancient very valuable medicinal herbs, many are unearthed from ancient tombs, so love the house and the crow, the old man and I also have a few interest in antiques.”
Li Wansan said, Luo Cheng smiled as if thinking, then seemed to think of something, a pat on the side of Lin Ran, laughing to Li Wansan father and son said.
“Both of you, speaking of this literary game, you should change both of you don’t know the strength of little friend Lin Ran!”
“The little divine doctor still knows about literary play?”
Li Tang was a little surprised, and Li Wansan was equally very surprised, looking at this Lin Ran.
“Little divine Doctor, you still have dabbling in literary games?”
“That’s not true!”
Before Lin Ran could answer, Luo Cheng came to his senses and said.
“When my grandfather was seriously ill, it was the Little Divine Doctor who took care of him, and later on at the recovery banquet, the Little Divine Doctor was the one who poked holes in a fake Guanyin statue, which was sent by that kid Liu Xuan!”
“Liu Xuan?”
Li Wansan frowned slightly at his words, he had heard of this Liu Xuan, it was the young proprietor of this Wanding Pawnshop, the grandson of the Liu family.
“Later, the little divine doctor even gave my grandfather a jade pendant, it was said that the jade pendant could keep peace, at first I didn’t believe it, but recently my grandfather looked better and better, there were some signs of rejuvenation!”
Luo Cheng laughed.
Lin Ran, however, shook his head as he listened on the sidelines, this guy was really blowing it up without bounds.
“Don’t listen to his nonsense, it can only nourish the body and moisten the qi and blood, and ward off evil spirits and good fortune!”
Lin Ran explained, he was really afraid that if he let Luo Cheng go on, he would blow him up into the sky and into the earth.
“Little divine Doctor, a true hero emerges from a young man.”
Li Tang couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration.
Li Wansan also listened with a surging heart, feeling that he had met a valuable person, but he was after all young, plus Luo Cheng had also bragged about it before, so he still had to verify some things for himself.
Immediately, he looked at Lin Ran and smiled.
“Little friend Lin Ran, I wonder what you think of this bronze Buddha?”
Lin Ran heard this and turned to look at the bronze Buddha, then a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth as he looked at Li Wansan and smiled.
“Brother Wansan, do you think this thing is real or fake?”
“Hm?”
Li Wansan was a little surprised at his words and said busily.
“Could it be that little friend Lin Ran thinks this is a fake? The headquarters of Wanding Pawn, it’s unlikely that this item is a fake!”
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Li Tang, who was listening at the side, stepped forward and said.
“To tell the truth, Sanwan and I both think this is a treasure, whether from the workmanship or the patina on it, as well as the colour, it is a very well-preserved bronze Buddha.”
“Right!”
Li Wansan said with the same nod.
Lin Ran smiled but shook his head.
“But you guys have overlooked one thing!”
“What?”
Luo Cheng asked curiously, he had no research on this kind of antiques, but Li Wansan and Li Tang’s research on antiques was very high, he used to buy things without consulting this father and son, but he didn’t think that today there was actually a time to look away.
“The steel mark on the bottom!”
Lin Ran laughed.
Li Tang was startled at his words, seemingly thinking of something, while Li Wansan was a little puzzled, seemingly not understanding what Lin Ran was saying.
Lin Ran smiled lightly and looked towards Li Tang.
At this moment, Li Tang’s gaze had already fallen on the bronze Buddha once again, this time he looked extremely carefully, turning in a circle to look the bronze Buddha over carefully, before finally sighing and saying.
“We were mistaken, this is indeed a highly imitated piece of fine art!”
“Quickly tell me what the problem is!”
Li Wansan hurriedly urged, this not knowing the truth made his heart itch like scratching an itch, and he was in a hurry.
“The steel seal that little friend Lin Ran said was actually just for us to pay attention to looking at the bottom of the bronze Buddha!”
Li Tang said, and then looked at Lin Ran.
“Little friend, am I right?”
Lin Ran nodded, and then said.
“Ancient bronze smelting techniques were very high, and even some of the lost techniques are even better than the current ones, but there is one thing that is not as good as the modern ones, and that is the delicacy of the modelling and carving.”
“Bronze doesn’t want to be ceramic, it’s very difficult to carve a very delicate shape on bronze, so a lot of ancient bronzes are known for their resemblance!”
Said Lin Ran, pointing to an immortal crane carving at the bottom of the bronze Buddha and smiling.
“This immortal crane is delicately shaped and has obvious missing legs and the bottom of the bronze Buddha, which would never have appeared in ancient times, and it appears here, I’m afraid it was for the purpose of sealing the steel seal in the first place!”
Speaking here, Lin Ran said with a faint smile.
“In order to make this bronze Buddha more like a treasure, they didn’t leave the steel seal, but they did leave the location where the steel seal was to be struck, which was the first break, and the second break was the absence of this crane leg!”
After saying that, Lin Ran looked at Li Wan San and Li Tang and laughed.
“And do you think about it, although Wanding Pawn is very strong, but this is after all their company, a place with a very high flow of people, if it was a precious item, it would be very unsafe to put it here, that’s why they made a fake one!”
“But for the sake of their Wanding Trading Firm’s reputation, they didn’t dare to use a fake that was too inferior, so they came up with this high imitation, and I’m afraid that the breakage below is something they purposely left for their own convenience to differentiate, between the precious and the fake!”
Lin Ran said a lot in one breath, making Li Wan San and his father and son dumbfounded as they listened, they did not expect Lin Ran to think so much in such a short period of time, and to be so comprehensive.
“The little divine doctor is really something!”
Li Tang couldn’t help but exclaim, and even Li Wansan couldn’t help but give a thumbs up.
“How about it, I told you that the Little Divine Doctor can do anything!”
The more powerful Lin Ran showed his abilities, the happier he was, after all, it would only do him good to have such a powerful friend.
When he thought of this, Luo Cheng was glad that the conflict with Lin Ran had not intensified, otherwise he would have missed out on such a good friend, just like Liu Xuan.
“Attention everyone who is attending the auction, the auction will start soon, please take your seats.”
While the crowd was talking, a voice did ring out.
Lin Ran and the others looked at each other, and then Li Sanwan smiled and said.
“Since we’re here, let’s all take our seats together, maybe little friend Lin Ran can shine today!”
“Lao San, you’re afraid you don’t want little friend Lin Ran to help you with your eyes, I can tell you, little friend Lin Ran’s appearance fee is very high, helping you is fine, at least you have to treat us to a meal at a five star hotel!”
Luo Cheng laughed.
Li Wansan shook his head with a smile and said.
“You kid, am I, Li Wan San, lacking in this amount of money? What I lack is long insight!”
“Haha!”
Lin Ran couldn’t help but laugh as well at his words.
The four of them quickly took their seats, and the lights in the entire hall brightened up at once.
Soon Lin Ran noticed that at the front of the entire hall, a small stage had actually risen, and a curvaceous beauty had appeared on the stage.
She was wearing a cla*sical cheongsam, and her already shapely figure was outlined in a mouth-watering way.
And in front of her stood, side by side, five carved Chinese white jade pillars, each with a large metal bowl clasped to it, and it was clear that the item up for auction today was underneath these five large bowls.
“All right, everyone, there are still only five lots today, and as advertised before, they are all rare medicinal herbs.
The beautiful lady said a simple sentence and immediately sparked the atmosphere of the scene, Wanding Pawn did a very good job of getting straight to the point and saving time.
Under the operation of the beautiful host, the big metal bowl of the first lot was soon unveiled.
At once, everyone saw that on the tray below, there was a crystal clear fruit, which was milky white in colour and the size of a dragon fruit, making people salivate and want to take a bite.
“The first lot is the Ice Dragon Fruit, which was picked from the Ice Dragon Snow Mountain just yesterday!”
The beautiful host made a very short introduction and did not say anything about the effects of the fruit.
This was not because she was negligent, but it was the rule of Wanding Pawn, when auctioning something at Wanding Pawn, they would never say a lot of information about the product, it was all based on their own eyesight.
As Wanding Pawn had already introduced, this was a special auction of medicinal herbs, and naturally the herbs for sale were medicinal herbs, but as to how the herbs were, and whether they were real or not, it was entirely up to the bidders to decide for themselves.
“Okay, the starting price for the Ice Dragon Fruit is thirty thousand, each time the bid is raised, it cannot be less than one thousand, now the bidding begins!”
The beautiful host said with a smile.
“I bid forty thousand!”
“Forty-five thousand!”
“Forty-six thousand!”
As the beautiful host’s words fell, the atmosphere immediately rose to a high level, and countless people began to raise their bids frantically.
“Sixty thousand!”
When the price was fixed at fifty thousand, Li Wansan suddenly opened his mouth and added ten thousand directly.
At once, everyone’s eyes looked over.
Although this ice dragon fruit was rare, it was a modern herb after all, and could be obtained if one waited patiently, and the market price was only around 40,000 to 50,000.
Li Wansan, however, did not care and said with a smile.
“This Ice Dragon Fruit is said to be able to remove dead flesh and create white bones, and is very effective in replenishing the essence of the elderly, this is something that I am determined to get!”
Lin Ran nodded secretly at his words, he understood that this Li Wansan wanted to buy it for his father to consume, the normally shrewd businessman was just a filial son at this moment.
Li Wansan’s action made Lin Ran very appreciative as he smiled and spoke.
“If there are still bids, brother Wan San might as well let go of this item, the next lot will definitely be better than this one and more suitable for the old man’s health!”
